Panic Stations

A collection of illustrations by world-renowned cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé.

Jean-Jacques Sempé

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Specifications

Hardback

English

270 x 220 mm, 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in

112 pp

190 black and white illustrations

ISBN-13: 9780714846743

ISBN-10: 0714846740

Overview

The fifth anthology of witty and enchanting sketches and cartoons by one of the world’s best-loved illustrators

In this collection Sempé returns to some of his favourite themes – unspoken truths, failed communications and hidden talents – as well as exploring a batch of new subjects: familiar characters such as artists, psychoanalysts and married couples appear alongside unpredictable children, tyrannical computers and surprisingly friendly aliens

Originally published in France in 1966, and now available to a worldwide English-speaking audience for the first time, Sempé’s witty drawings will delight cartoon connoisseurs and Francophiles as well as the general public

Translated by Anthea Bell, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize

About the author(s)

Jean-Jacques Sempé (b.1932) is one of the world's most successful illustrators and cartoonists. He is the illustrator of the classic children's-book character, Nicholas, and author of a collection of some thirty albums of his cartoons and graphic novels, all published or to be published by Phaidon. His world-renowned illustrations and cartoons are featured on the cover of the New Yorker and in Paris Match.